Analyzing the joys and funny bits of parenting and the domestic life
Mud, puddles, pits. These are the siren calls of boyhood. An empty skateboard pit simply must be conquered. The skate park might have been intended for teenage skaters, but in the middle of the day, it is the home to a multitude of small boys thinking that they are like the Big Boys because they [...]
Last summer, I started Operation Two Wheels. I didn’t bother telling anyone about it which meant that Operation Two Wheels was about as top secret as you can get. My mission: to convince my son (then four, now five) to try biking without his training wheels. I can’t recall if it surprised me that my [...]
There’s a ghost in my phone that continually downloads the same ten images every time I hook the phone up to my computer. I love these photos – that’s why I haven’t deleted them off my phone yet, but I don’t actually need the 500 copies that my phone seems to think I do. As [...]
I’m still on the painfully slow road to recovery. Never in my life have I been so sick. And I hope to never be this way again. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, do a dance to the moon goddess under the stars. I honestly would not have managed without my mom staying with me this [...]
Who says beach weather has to include sunshine and warmth? Not this kid. Give him some rubber boots and a warm hat and we’re good to head to the ocean. I can’t blame him. I love the sea myself.
